Metallic tie and rail-fastener.



No. 850,598. PATENTED APR, 16, 1967.

J. B. NOVAGK. METALLIC TIE 'AND RAIL FASTENER.

APPLIUATION FILED IBB. 5,1907.

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METALLIC TIE AND RAILMFASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907.

Application filed February 5, 1907- Serial No 355,785.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH B. N OVACK, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Epton, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Ties and Rail-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates ,to metallic ties and rail-fasteners; and the invention has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive tie wherein positive and reliable means are employed for fastening one or more rails upon a tie.

My invention aims to provide a metallic tie wl'iich will take a firm hold in the ballast of a road-bed, and in connection with the tie I use novel means for securing a rail thereto or the confronting ends of two rails.

The principle of my improved rail-fastener can be readily embodied in a structure adapt ed to hold a guard-rail in connection with a main rail. 1

The detail construction of my invention will be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the appended. claims, and, referring to the drawings forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts I throughout the several views, in which' Figure 1 is a perspective view ofmy improved metallic tie and rail-fastener. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the fastener, partly in elevation. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the rail-supporting plate. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of my improved fastener, partly in elevation, illustrating a modified form of the same. Fig. 5 is a per spective view of a fish plate or bar constructed to be used in connection with the fastener.

To put my invention into practice, I construct my improved tie of a flat beam 1. The top of the tie adjacent to each end is re cessed, as at 3, to provide a seat for a railsupporting plate 4, said plate being pierced, as at 5, whereby bolts and nuts 6 can be em ployed for securing the plate in the recessed portion of the tie.

Each plate is formed with longitudinallydisposed rail-seats 7, connected by a transverse web 8, which is provided with an aperture 9. The ends of the rail-seats are cut away, as at 10, to provide sockets for trunnions 1 1, carried by rail-clamps 12, said railclamps being provided with apertures 14,

adapted to aline with the apertures 9 of the web 8. The clamps 12 are placed between the seats 7 and are adapted to engage the base-flanges 1.5 of. a rail 16, mounted upon ends of the rod 17 to hold said clamps upon the base-flanges '15 and between the railseats 7.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings I have illustrated a modified form of my invention wherein the rail-fastener is designed for bridge and trestle structures and switches,

where guard-rails are employed in connection with the main rails. In this modified form of construction a detachable web 8 is employed and the seats 7 made of sufficient length to accommodate the main rail 1.6 and the guard-rail 21. The detachable web 8 is substantially T shape in cross-section to lie over the confronting base-flanges of the rails 16 and 21, as at 2. It will of course be understood that a tie-rod of greater length is used in order to secure the rail-clamps and web 8 to the rail-plate l.

Vhere the confronting ends of two rails are to be connected together upon my improved tie, I provide the rail-clamps 12 with fish bars or plates 23, which are secured to the web portions of the rails by nuts and bolts. (Not shown.)

The novel construction of my improved rail-fastener prevents vertical and lateral displacement of rails without impairing the strength of the rails The fasteners can also be used in connection with wooden ties by providing the same with seats for my improved rail-supporting plates.

It is obvious that such changes in the minor details of construction as are permissible by the appended claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a metallic tie and rail-fastener, the combination with a beam having seats formed therein, and rails, of rail-supporting plates detachably mounted in said seats, said plates lIOv having connected rail-seats providing sockets, rail-clamps adapted to engage in said sockets and engaging said rails, and tie-rods mounted between said rail-seats and passing through said rail-clamps for holding said clamps in engagement with said railsup porting plates and said rails.

2. In a metallic tie and rail-fastener, the combination with a beam having a seat formed therein, of a rail-supporting plate detachably mounted in said seat and formed with rail-seats, a Web connecting said railseats, rail-clamps adapted to engage in the ends of said seats, a tie-rod passing through said rail-clamps and said web, and a head carried by said tie-rod and engaging the v inner side of said web.

3. A rail-fastener consisting of a rail-supporting plate having seats and sockets, a web between said seats, rail-clamps adapted to engage in said sockets, and a tie-rod passing through said web for holding said clamps between said seats.

4; in combination with a cross-tie having a recess in its upper face, a plate seated in said recess and secured to the tie with its upper face flush With the upper face of the tie, railseats carried by said plate and lying above the upper face of the tie and having notched ends, rail-clamps fitted between the railseats, and having trunnions engaging the notched ends of said seats, and means for connecting the rail-clamps together.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH B. NOVACK WVitnesses MAX H. SRoLovITz, K. H. BUTLER. 

